Snails for Valentines Day

Today was boring...again lol..until we decided to go outside for awhile. The weather was gorgeous, about 65 and sunny and no winds at all. The little girl, Holly, from across the street came over to play and of course Kelsey really enjoyed that, and Tyler enjoys anything Kelsey does. The girls road their bikes and Tyler tried to ride his tricycle. They were all in the culdesac we have on our little street, perfect for bike riding...if it wasnt for all the gravles from peoples driveways that have slowly crept into the road from the rain. But still they had a grand time. Tyler got tired of riding, checked the lady neighbors mail for her lol ( I had to make him take it back and put it up!) and then we all sat in front of a little hole I found in the yard that was covered with a rock, sticks in hand, pulling old leaves, worms, snails, slugs, and centipedes from it. We put them all in one of tylers dump truck beds for safe keeping while we did more digging.



The girls were uniterested after about 10 mintues so they went to the swing set/club house in the back yard and played. Tyler and I however went to the fence line where all the leaves from the fall had been pushed up against by the wind, and we went discovering again. He had fun flicking the leaves out of the way with his stick, but we didnt find much but more worms, still he had a pretty good vocabulary lesson from it. He managed to say "worms", "snails", "slugs", or something pretty close, but at least he now has a new word and knows what that word means! After mine and Tylers last exploration at the fence, he went to join the girls in play. Well, really he grabbed a rope and started to chase them as if he had a snake in his hands, it was really quite funny to see him so tiny chasing these two girls all the while making a hissing noise :)

While the chasing was happening I decided to pick up all the sticks that had fallen from the trees in the last few weeks...then I had a lightbulb moment...BRIBE the kids to help, lol! I told them if they would help me pick up the sticks we could have a ice cream bar! So of course they did...except Kelsey. She is toooo smart for my "tricks", she simply told me she didnt want any icecream, lol, and proceeded to play by herself! What a Smarty Pants she is! But of course she got an ice cream anyways, she did play really nicely with her brother today!


All in all it was a good fun day that ended with the kids getting to go to Papa and Mimi's house to spend the night while Me and Brian went to dinner in Huntsville for Valentines day and did a little shopping at Walmart late in the night while there were no crowds( I hate walmart when ppl are there, love it late at night L;) )